Example sentences of "[art] drugs " in BNC.

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1 Three agencies-the Drugs Council , the Detoxification Unit , and GPs-were able to provide information about the frequency and duration of heroin use , the quantities used , and the route of administration ( method of use ) .
2 Working Paper 4 states that new patients on a list or changed clinical conditions of existing patients will bring corresponding adjustments to the drugs budget , but it is not clear whether these adjustments will have to be made within the overall regional allocation to the FPC , or whether new funds can be made available during a year in recognition of patient migration .
3 But the drugs that can reduce it have to be taken for life , and many have unpleasant side-effects .
4 Several of the main fugitives from the present Colombian crackdown on the drugs industry are alleged to be sheltering in Panamanian safe-houses .
5 Evidence of infiltration of the army by the drugs cartels has added to reservations about how effective the American aid can be .
6 Embassy officials insist British aid will provide practical means of combating the drugs trade .
7 The drugs barons often win the support of the poor because they provide the means for entire communities to make a living .
8 While most people strongly condemn the drugs traffickers , critics point to the recent drive by international markets to drive down the price of coffee , Colombia 's main export — and to the continuing drain of resources into debt payments to Western banks — as evidence that the international community is not willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed to confront the social and economic roots of Latin America 's drug problem .
9 Meanwhile , on the deck of HMS Alacrity , the crew are determined to do whatever they can to fight the drugs traffickers .
10 What had changed , he said , was that the association had finally accepted his assurance that patients would get all the drugs they needed under the new system .
11 If local agencies had chosen to co-operate with police in combating the drugs problem , we would have been delighted .
12 I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later .
13 But the budgets will not be cash limits and GPs will remain free to prescribe all the drugs their patients need , he insisted .
14 ‘ We have no idea what wonder drug Boots or Wellcome might suddenly produce during the year , and we can not stop and should not stop doctors prescribing all the drugs that their particular patients ’ need . ’
15 He wished that the BMA would now stop ‘ quibbling ’ and accept the assurance that it had accepted last week that patients will get all the drugs they need , he added .
16 We know who 's been supplying the drugs to them .
17 FAR FROM the drama of special agents in helicopters swooping over remote Colombian mountainsides , experts from the world 's richest countries meet in Paris today to improve what many consider to be the most effective means of combating the drugs trade — hitting the traffickers ' pockets .
18 The business of turning ‘ hot ’ money into legitimate tender is as old as crime itself , but it is only in recent years , largely because of the explosion of the drugs trade , that money laundering has become such a huge business .
19 They decided that , in addition to the traditional , and largely vain , efforts to curb drug production , there is an urgent need to step up the offensive from the other end of the drugs trail .
20 ‘ But the nature of the drugs trade , and financial markets , is such that one country alone can do little , ’ says Detective Chief Inspector Gus Jones of Scotland Yard 's National Drugs Intelligence Unit .
21 Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start .
22 POLICE have found the van belonging to a murdered social worker half-a-mile from the drugs centre where her battered body was found .
23 She was reported missing by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , who discovered her body with the help of an official from Turning Point , the drugs advisory charity for which she had worked as a counsellor for three years .
24 Mr Dowding is a leading official in the local National Farmers ' Union and is aware of the risks involved in throwing away the drugs and chemicals .
25 Meeting in Ica on Tuesday , Presidents Alan Garcia of Peru , Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia and Virgilio Barco of Colombia said there was an increased global sense of ‘ co-responsibility ’ for the drugs trade .
26 Mr Hurd also outlined proposals to establish Home Office teams in areas at risk from the spread of the drugs crack and cocaine .
27 She knew nothing of the drugs or drop-out culture of her generation .
28 ‘ We can try shaming them out of the drugs business and say how un-Islamic it is ’ suggested Abdul Haq .
29 A third would give GPs an explicit right to prescribe the drugs their patients need without any cash limit , while a fourth would specify that all contracts for care must protect quality , not just promote cost competition .
30 A survey by the drugs company Beecham shows the incidence of flu is between 25 and 71 per cent higher than at this time last year .
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